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Monday, July 28, 2008

Monday, July 28, 2008

It's bad enough that this cake seems to be using "full belly" as some kind of euphemism. Add in the picture of the scruffy-looking guy with his arms around a couple of kids, and surrounded by other children in various states of frolicking - all while in a secluded forest, I might add - and you've got some seriously disturbing cake imagery going on.

Considering the degree of wrongness already reached by those two issues, I almost feel petty in pointing out that there's no "a" before "dream".

That's so terrible... I think the cake was supposed to be innocent, though, but I'm not sure. Hysterical, though. I laughed so hard I cried- and coughed, since I have a pretty terrible head cold right now.

It seems inappropriate to have on a cake about having full bellies - like its making a mockery of hunger. On a luxury item that isn't even good for you, lets point out that it shouldn't just be a dream to not go hungry.

Gosh, people really don't double check their work, do they? They put all this time and energy making the darn cake then they scribble out some words on top without a second glance... And the arbitrary quotation marks make me "nuts"!

I don't know if this is the case but being "full" is also Australian slang for being pregnant, so it *could* still be a baby shower cake...? Maybe the scruffy fellow compensated for lack of ability and adopted all the kids...?

Ewwwwww. Very weirded out Jesus-hippie guy with his arms around two (unsuspecting)children, plus other children (looking like apple cores as another reader pointed out) leaning against trees - or are they mushrooms with green tops?

ok----new take....that's not a beard it's a REALLY BIG SMILE on the face of the mom who is glad that she is pregnant again by another baby daddy....single mom times 6 kiddos...big bucks with foodstamps and welfare!!! WOOHOO!! and someone need to take the grass tip away from the decorator...it's not meant for trees!!

Ok, I'm seriously not trying to offend anyone's choices here, but I thought maybe this was a shower cake for the "Quiver Full" movement folks when I read it...and then I couldn't figure out how a man with a beard played in, unless he was the dad and maybe it was a dad shower...

I think this is a good example of if your cake needs a lot of explanation, it is probably not a good cake. PROBABLY.

[Jesus Man, speaking to children on log]: "Play your cards right, kids, and you won't end up skinned and looking like an apple core, such as the conjoined-at-the-neck Sherman twins over there. Billy, stop rolling on my new lime green shag carpet!"

I immediately thought of the children's singer, Raffi and his song "All I really need is a song in my heart, food in my belly, and love in my family" thinking it must have been a cake for a homeless shelter for kids or something. Now who's the crazy one?

I think it's supposed to be a "we can totally have kids even though you appear to be infertile" cake. I'm thinking "Full Belly" = pregnant. Though I can't speak for what the guy does to the kids when they get there haha

We have banquets all the time to elicit donations from the well-off for our anti-hunger charity. And yes, we often have cake. What do you think we should do, bang on the doors and say, "give us money!"? It isn't as if we're inviting hungry people and making them watch us eat.

You need to lighten up or you're going to have a coronary. And then I will laugh. Because, you know, I'm so "wrong".

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